Barrel-cover



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J. P. HARP.

BARREL GOVER. No. 398,153. Patented Feb. 19, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN PATRICK HARP, OF DONALDSONVILLE, LOUISIANA.

BARREL-COVER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,153, dated February19, 1889.

Application filed July 31, 1888. Serial No. 281,697. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN PATRICK HARP, a citizen of the United States,residing at Donaldsonville, in the parish of Ascension and State ofLouisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBarrel-Covers; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has relation to improvements in. movable barrel-covers;and it has f or its object to provide a cover which will permit ofinspection of the contents without removing the cover or any portion ofit from the barrel; and the novelty will be fully understood from thefollowing description and claims, when taken in connection with theannexed drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of the cover, show.ing the movable section partly open. Fig. 2 is a similar view showingthe movable cover in a closed position. Fig. 3 is a diametricalsectional view of 3, taken on the line 00a: thereof; and Fig. 4 is aperspective view of a barrel with my cover applied, the movable sectionbeing part-1y open.

In carrying out my invention I take two semicircular strips, G, of woodor other suit able material, and arrange them at an intervalhorizontally, so as to form between them an interspace, (1. These stripsor semicircular plates Ghave bound around their circular edges a hoop,II, the lower edge of which depends sufliciently beneath the lowerplate, G,

as shown at b, to encircle the mouth of the By this conbarrel whenplaced thereon. struction it will be seen that I have a semicircularfiXed section within the loop I-I,which leaves a similarly-shapedopening, (1, within the said hoop. This semicircular opening disprovided on the inner side of the hoop with a ledge, H, to serve as abearing for the frame B of a transparent movable semicircular section,A.

The section A is of glass or other transparent material, so that when ithas been moved in a closed position, as will be presently explained, orwhen it has been placed upon a barrel the contents thereof may beinspected without removing the cover.

The frame B is of a semicircuhtr form and its straight portion ispivoted .midway of its length to a similar point of the fixedcoversection, so that it may turn in between the plates G and beprotected from injury when it is desirable to get at the contents of thebarrel.

The upper plate of the fixed section is provided near opposite ends ofthe straight edge with stop-notches D and E, so as to receive the shankof a knob, C, secured near one end on the upper side of the straightportion of the glass frame B.

K indicates two parallel depending flanges, one of which is secured tothe inner side of the ledge H and the otherto the outer side of the hoopIf, so thatthey may embrace the upper edge of the barrel when the coverhas been placed thereon.

I am aware that it is not new to form a cover with a fixed and a movablesection, the movable section being pivoted to the fixed section and bothhaving a hoop to embrace the mouth of the barrel.

Having described my invention, what I claim is The improved barrel-coverherein described,

consisting, essentially, of the fixed section composed of thesemicircular plates G G, arranged so as to form an interspace, a, thehoop H, bound around the curved margin of the said fixed section anddepending from the under side thereof, the ledge H, secured to the innerside of the hoop, as shown, the semicircular frame B, the glass A,secured therein, the said glass frame being pivoted at its straightportion to the straight portion of the fixed section, so that it mayturn within the plates G thereof, and the flanges K, adapted to embracea barrel-mouth, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN PATRICK HARP. Witnesses:

J. E. MOSEMAN, JOHN WRIGHT.

